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July 9, 2025

July 9, 2025

July 9, 2025

AI voice clones have hit the White House AGAIN, now impersonating the Secretary of State to other Gov officials to try to steal secrets/access.
Here is a video of me live demoing how quick and easy it is to clone a voice to hack and how to catch AI voice clone attacks in action! https://t.co/LzxkyZZshs pic.twitter.com/36YV3P6MOk

β€” Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac) July 8, 2025


Mobilizing Cyber Power: The Growing Role of Cyber Militias in China’s Network Warfare Force Structure β€” Margin Research

This report examines how China’s cybersecurity industry fields reserve and militia units in support of the PLA and national mobilization system.


🚨 ICYMI - 245 browser extensions contained a code library called Mellowtel which allows anyone to make requests through your browser while extension owners get paid. This has impacted over 900,000 users! Let's take a look at how it works! πŸ‘‡ pic.twitter.com/LQtw0BRiUY

β€” tuckner (@tuckner) July 8, 2025

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@tuckner: 🚨 ICYMI - 245 browser extensions contained a code library called Mellowtel which allows anyone to make requests through your browser while extension owners get paid. This has impacted over 900,000 users! Le...…

Secure Annex - Enterprise Software Extension Security & Management Platform

How the Mellowtel library transforms browser extensions into a distributed web scraping network, making nearly one million devices an unwitting bot army.


A story in 2 pictures.

Shout-out @BobTShoplifter for full disclosure πŸ™ pic.twitter.com/yJ8LBwmMXP

β€” vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 8, 2025


https://warontherocks.com/2025/07/the-importance-of-the-battle-of-cannae/


There is a newly created YouTube channel which has sparked our interest.

A person operating the moniker "Vacant" has begun interviewing individuals in the "Com" β€” short for "The Community".

He recently interviewed an individual from 764. 764 is an online group most known for…

β€” vx-underground (@vxunderground) July 7, 2025


It's shaping up to be an excellent summer for China + cyber research. @Margin_Research just dropped a new report on China's cyber militias, updating a long-missing piece of the puzzle. https://t.co/9GkV1r6NRT

β€” Dakota Cary (@DakotaInDC) July 8, 2025


Indictment of Chinese hackers


for those of you who worry about your github commit streak. pic.twitter.com/POBUIoxZvF

β€” Basketo (@BaslaelWorkneh) July 8, 2025


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